19th Canadian Conference on Global Health: Global Health in the Shifting World Economy

The theme “Global Health in the Shifting World Economy” will specifically be examining the:

• The growing economic crisis in Europe and the impact on social welfare programs;
• Private/public partnerships;
• Economic growth with growing inequities in health;
• The role of state capitalism and the infusion of development aid;
• Existing and evolving global inequities in health and their expected and unexpected impacts on the world’s marginalized and vulnerable populations, including indigenous groups.

Plenary sessions and topic-focused symposia will be followed by workshops, special sessions, and oral and poster sessions to help facilitate knowledge dissemination in areas of global shifts in the economy and global health equity in local, national, and global contexts.

The Objectives of the 2012 CCGH are to:

• Examine inequities in health status and the impact of shifting world economies on the health of marginalized and vulnerable, including indigenous groups;

• Provide global researchers and research-users a forum for meaningful interaction and knowledge exchange on evidence-based practice, programming and policy-development that promotes and maintains global health;

• Explore the social determinants of health, e.g. economic status, food security, shelter, safety, education, income, poverty, employment and access to care and the relation to health status;

• Offer a forum for reexamining both successes and failures of practice, policies and research; and

• Discuss with practitioners, community members, policy makers, NGOs and researchers new visions and methods of working with vulnerable populations to achieve overall improvements in social determinants of health, in the face of the challenges of shifting world economies.

For more information and to register for this event, please visit: http://www.ccgh-csih.ca/csih2012/index.php 

Executive Course on Intellectual Property, Diplomacy and Global Public Health 

13 - 15 February 2013

Geneva, Switzerland 

Global Health Programme, Graduate Institute 

Applications now open!

Deadline for application: Sunday, 13 January 2013

Intellectual property issues have come to play an increasingly important role in discussions of national and global health problems. Yet, individuals whose primary expertise is health or diplomacy may find these discussions inaccessible because they lack a sufficient understanding of basic intellectual property concepts and their relationship to global public health. The purpose of this course is to help fill this gap by exploring current debates about health-related aspects of intellectual property from a global public health perspective. A key goal of the course will be to develop concrete tools for implementing the World Health Organization’s Global Strategy and Plan of Action on Public Health, Innovation, and Intellectual Property.

The course is a joint offering of the Graduate Institute’s Global Health Programme and the Gibbons Institute of Law, Science & Technology at Seton Hall Law School (Newark, NJ, USA).

This executive course targets applicants from different professional backgrounds, such health attachés, health and international relations professionals in departments of international health, as well as staff in international organisations, NGOs, philanthropic and the private sector. This course is also being offered as an advanced module to the executive course on Global Health Diplomacy.

For more information on the course and the application form, please click here.

For more information contact the GHP at the Graduate Institute.

Executive Course on Global Health Diplomacy   

1-5 July 2013

Geneva, Switzerland 

Global Health Programme, Graduate Institute 

Applications now open!

Deadline for application: 1 April 2013

The Global Health Programme of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies offers this intensive five-day course in response to new skills needed as health moves beyond its purely technical realm to become an ever more critical element in foreign policy, security policy and trade agreements. Since 2007, the course has focused on health diplomacy and negotiations with changing thematic emphasis each year.

This year’s course will explore current debates at the interface with foreign policy, trade, climate change through multi-disciplinary learning process. Negotiation simulations and skill building activities will facilitate the real-life backdrop discussion, along with high-level introduction to the field of global health diplomacy and key challenges at national, regional and global levels.

This executive course targets applicants from different professional backgrounds, such as health attachés, health and international relations professionals in departments of international health, as well as staff in international organisations, NGOs, philanthropic and the private sector.

For more information on the course and the application form, please click here.

For more information contact the GHP at the Graduate Institute.